 Their bearing, which was simply the bearing of commonplace individuals going about their business in the assurance of perfect safety, was offensive to me like the outrageous flauntings of folly in the face of a danger it is unable to comprehend.  Youth and Two Other Stories - 152 ページJoseph Conrad 著 - 1924 - 339 ページ全文表示 - この書籍について
 | Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 410 ページ
...an irritating pretense, because I felt so sure they could not possibly know the things I knew. Their bearing, which was simply the bearing of commonplace...perfect safety, was offensive to me like the outrageous flauntin gs of folly in the face of a danger it is unable to comprehend. I had no particular desire... | |
 | Ethan Allen Cross - 1928 - 524 ページ
...an irritating pretense, because I felt so sure they could not possibly know the things I knew. Their bearing, which was simply the bearing of commonplace...difficulty in restraining myself from laughing in [438] their faces, so full of stupid importance. I dare say I was not very well at that time. I tottered... | |
 | 1900 - 874 ページ
...irritating pretense, because I felt so sure they could not possibly know the things I knew; and their bearing, which was simply the bearing of commonplace...perfect safety, was offensive to me like the outrageous fiauntlngs of folly In the face of a danger It is unable to comprehend. I had no particular desire... | |
 | Norman Sherry - 1971 - 484 ページ
...civilisation, the recognition of which makes him, on his return to the sepulchral city, irritated by 'the bearing of commonplace individuals going about...their business in the assurance of perfect safety' (p. 152). 'Here you all are', he says to his audience, 'each moored with two good addresses, like a... | |
 | Ian Watt - 1981 - 400 ページ
...behind that the ordinary behaviour of the inhabitants of the sepulchral city seem as "offensive" as "the outrageous flauntings of folly in the face of a danger it is unable to comprehend." Marlow's feverish disorientation, it should be remembered, is actually a fairly normal reaction to... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1990 - 84 ページ
...an irritating pretense, because I felt so sure they could not possibly know the things I knew. Their bearing, which was simply the bearing of commonplace...in the face of a danger it is unable to comprehend. 1 had no particular desire to enlighten them, but I had some difficulty in restraining myself from... | |
 | Mark Wollaeger - 1990 - 288 ページ
...pretence, because I felt so sure they could not possibly know the things I knew. Their bearing . . . was offensive to me like the outrageous flauntings...comprehend. I had no particular desire to enlighten them" (HD 152). Remarking that he was "not very well at that time," Marlow licenses us to imagine that an... | |
 | John Wylie Griffith - 1995 - 262 ページ
...an irritating pretence, because I felt so sure they could not possibly know the things I knew. Their bearing, which was simply the bearing of commonplace...in the face of a danger it is unable to comprehend' (HD 70). Civilization, culture, and community are conventions that bound and insulate the bourgeois... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1995 - 228 ページ
...an irritating pretence, because I felt so sure they could not possibly know the things I knew. Their bearing, which was simply the bearing of commonplace...flauntings of folly in the face of a danger it is unable to comprehend."4 I had no particular desire to enlighten them, but I had some difficulty in restraining... | |
 | Gail Fincham, Myrtle Hooper - 1996 - 252 ページ
...a society's practices becomes available for thought. Marlow later finds an "irritating pretence" in "the bearing of commonplace individuals going about...their business in the assurance of perfect safety" and calls them "offensive to me like the outrageous tlauntings of folly in the face of a danger it... | |
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